A writer shared the ‘invisible work’ her friend did that her husband never noticed and it’s fair to say it struck a chord

My friend & her husband lived in an apartment that had a soap dispenser installed on the edge of the kitchen sink. When they moved out after two years, he marveled to her: "it's amazing how that dispenser never ran out of soap in all this time." Women's work is truly invisible.

Things like this make it clear why men move on so quickly from a divorce or break up- They can’t handle the inconvenience of life alone. Women, otoh, do fine. We’ve done most everything ourselves anyway & now we’re spared the tragic disappointment that is hope for appreciation.

My ex-husband went back to his mom’s house when I left him. The last I heard, he’s still there, after 4 years, completely incapable of managing his own shit. And this is a dude who was constantly furious with me because he believed I “never did anything around the house.”

My brother once pranked a roommate who made instant coffee from a tiny jar each morning, by adding some back from a larger hidden jar each evening. One morning after ~3 months the roommate went WTF MAGIC COFFEEJAR to the great amusement of the rest of the house 🙂